how to handle NA values in aggregate()
Dear All: I am trying to calculate four columns' means in a dataframe like this: FID MID IID EW_INCU EW_17.5 EMW EEratio 1 4621 TWF2H5 45.26 NA 15.61 NA 1 4621 TWF2H6 48.02 44.09 13.41 0.3041506 2 4630 TWF2H19 51.44 47.81 NA NA 2 4631 TWF2H21 NA 52.72 16.70 0.3167678 2 4632 TWF2H22 55.70 50.45 16.48 0.3266601 2 4633 TWF2H23 44.42 40.89 12.96 0.3169479 I try this code
aggregate(df[,4:7],df[,1],mean)
But I couldn't set the agrument na.rm=T in the mean() function,so the results are all NAs Please tell me how to handle NA values in the use of aggregate() Thanks a lot Yao He ????????????????????????? Master candidate in 2rd year Department of Animal genetics & breeding Room 436,College of Animial Science&Technology, China Agriculture University,Beijing,100193 E-mail: yao.h.1988 at gmail.com ??????????????????????????